Thoughts on GOD and TRUTH
(found somewhere in the middle of ultra-conservatism and flaming liberalism)

Monday, December 28, 2015

Thought of the Day !!

For the kind of sorrow God wants us to experience leads us away
from sin and results in salvation. There's no regret for that kind of sorrow.
But worldly sorrow, which lacks repentance, results in spiritual death. Just
see what this godly sorrow produced in you! Such earnestness, such concern to
clear yourselves, such indignation, such alarm, such longing to see me, such
zeal, and such a readiness to punish wrong. You showed that you have done
everything necessary to make things right. – 2 Corinthians 7:10-11 (NLT)

Believe it or not, God wants us to feel sorrow. He doesn't
want us to hurt for just no reason. His desire is that we have a sorrow
in us that makes us feel bad about our sin.

I was at a spiritual retreat one time sharing a testimony about
my life when I told the group that God made me feel guilty about some things in
my life. One of the men there said that God doesn't make us feel
guilty. Well of course He does. We call it our conscience.
And God uses this to help us see what we're doing wrong and to lead us to the
sorrow over sinfulness that will then lead us to change.

If we had no sorrow in life, we would feel no need for
repentance. If we were perfect people still living in the Garden of Eden
this would be fine. But we're not.

So think about the things you do or say that later bring about a
tinge of guilt or sorrow. Find those things that you've learned to live
with, looking past the guilt and sorrow, and repent of them. If you feel
even a little sorry or guilty about something, odds are that it's your
conscience telling you that it's wrong and you need to repent.